The majority deserted the vote and the League voted in favor. The Immunity Board Grants authorization to proceed for the former Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, accused of kidnapping for the case of migrants kept on board the Gregoretti ship. Rejection of President Gasparri’s proposal to say “no” to magistrates. But against the proposal, as asked by Salvini himself, the 5 senators of the League voted. In favor instead the 4 of FI and Alberto Balboni of FdI. Thus ends the first round of a political game that has kept political forces busy these days with the request by the majority to postpone the vote ignored by the president, Maurizio Gasparri. After the Senate Immunity Council’s vote on the Gregoretti case, the Chamber will vote and give the final vote. The date of the vote (scheduled around mid-February) will be decided by the conference of the group leaders of Palazzo Madama.
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The clash in the council
The session opened with 12 less senators: 10 from the majority, 2 from the mixed group. Present the 10 of the opposition, two more than the required legal number. «It would have been useless to enter today’s session, we cannot allow such authoritative bodies to participate in the election campaign, because this is what Salvini wants. It has crossed all limits in the lack of respect for the institutions, “commented the leader of the 5-star Movement in the Senate Immunity Council, Elvira Evangelista. Gasparri therefore declared the session valid. Strong tones of protest from the majority, who deserted the session. “Salvini e the Casellati they got their little result. The price paid is to break the institutions and divide the center-right again “, comments the president of the PD senators, Andrea Marcucci. “The escape of the majority Pd-M5s-Iv from the Immunity Committee is an open wound in the institutions”, counterattacks Osvaldo Napoli, of the board of Forza Italia in the Chamber.
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Salvini live: “Ready to prison”
The former Northern League vice-premier waited for the vote by making a live rally via social in San Giovanni Persiceto (Bo) via social. «I go to court with my head held high on behalf of the Italian people. If they arrest me, they must find a nice big prison to keep everyone in it ». The square exulted with the cry of «Matteo, Matteo». Salvini quoted Guareschi in the morning and said: “I am ready for prison for freedom.”
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Di Maio: “Victimism”
He went from sovereignty to victimism “, his are tactics, Luigi Di Maio, a former government ally and vice premier, commented in the morning at the time of the Gregoretti affair.
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